JUPITER, Fla. — It’s been nearly seven years since they drafted him 28th overall, and while he still raises that knuckle on his curveball to give it a “spike,” the beard is new, the role is new, and the arm feels as close to new as it has in a few years for lefty Rob Kaminsky.
A lot has changed on his way back to the Cardinals.
“Deep down,” he said, “I knew I was going to end up here.”
Five years after the Cardinals traded Kaminsky to Cleveland for slugger Brandon Moss, the New Jersey lefty has returned to his first organization as a non-roster invitee with a chance to hurl himself onto the reliever depth chart.